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Website Maintenance 101

March 28th, 2010

Top 10 Tips for Website MaintenanceWebsite Maintenance and management is key to getting more traffic (natural traffic) to your website and it’s crucial to making your website work for you.  Maintaining your site is not difficult, but it’s likely that you might not have the time to do the work.  The main reason for the lack of time is simple…it’s because you are working on your business.  Something to consider Read the rest of this entry »

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Speed Networking in Fitchburg Mass for your business

March 19th, 2010

Fitchburg Business Networking GroupThere is an upcoming networking event happening in Fitchburg Massachusetts, on April 1, 2010.  This event is free to attend and is being sponsored by the Fitchburg Business Networking Group.  To attend, simply register for free online, so that leadership can get a proper head count.

Speed Networking is Read the rest of this entry »

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IE 9 Team Speaks at Conference – Did Anyone Listen?

March 18th, 2010

IE 9.0 Preview

Recently, the Mix10 Developers Conference was held in Las Vegas.  Numerous speakers presented, including Dean Hachamovitch, the General Manager of Microsoft’s IE Group.  He said numerous things, which were recapped in Larry Barrett’s article on HTML Goodies.  Take a read at Larry’s article, it’s interesting, and thought provoking.

Internet Explorer 9 has a preview out there, you can find it here: Internet Explorer 9

I want to thank Larry for writing this article…but honestly…Does anyone want to see another version of IE?  As a web developer, and the owner of a website development company in the Boston Mass area, I am constantly frustrated by Read the rest of this entry »

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Central Mass Web Design Announce Flip Video Winner

March 17th, 2010
Katelyn Grenier

Katelyn Grenier, Winner of the Flip Video Camera

Recently Central Mass Web Design ran a contest on Facebook. When Facebook Users became a Fan of Central Mass Web Design on Facebook, they immediately were entered into a drawing to win a Free Flip Video Camera. The drawing would take place on the next business day following the fan count reaching 500. Central Mass Web Design employees and immediate family members were not eligible to win.

The fan page reached 500 on Saturday and the drawing took place on Monday March 15th. The winner was chosen and announced. The winner was Katelyn Grenier of Worcester Massachusetts. Read the rest of this entry »

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Massachusetts Health Insurance Hearing

March 13th, 2010

I recently attended a hearing for the State of Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner.  They were doing a listening tour around the state and attempting to hear what the citizens had to say about health insurance.  For those of you who are not aware, the state of Massachusetts decided in 2006 to require all residents to carry health insurance.  As part of that law, they also mandated that businesses offer health insurance to their employees if they have 11 or more full time equivalents.  That basically means 11 full time employees, or Read the rest of this entry »

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Website Content: Why it is so important

March 10th, 2010

Your Website Content is the most important part of your website.  Many people say that the design is key…but here is the real story.  The People that visit your site, rarely read all the content on the page that they are looking at.  In fact, in many cases, they only stay on the page for about thirty seconds on average.  The design is the important part for the prospective buyer and they need to know relatively quickly if they can get from you what they need or want.  If so great.  It’s the words on the page, however, that brought them to your site.  The words and website content are indexed by Google, Yahoo, and Bing, and put into their search engine database allowing visitors to find you when searching.

Simply put, the more Read the rest of this entry »

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Dynamic Websites Through Great Design and Data!

December 11th, 2009

In recent years  customers have come to expect more from their online browsing experience.   This has caused a change  in the standard for company websites.  A dynamic web site contains content that is continuously updated,  a design that is eye catching and inspiring which will give the consumer  a new online experience with every visit.

Maintaining Dynamic Web Page With Content

Maintaining a web sites content can be time consuming and can cost you money.   However, with our content management systems and Web Maintenance Plans,  even the least technical users have the ability and functionality to maintain dynamic web site content .

Content management systems give you the freedom to create dynamic web page content “in-house” rather than needing a third party.   You will easily be able to :

  • Create  content schedules that automatically adds or deletes items.
  • Update your events calendar, company news, or job openings.
  • Add Pictures to your content to keep your website dynamic in appearance.
  • Add dynamic data to all of your pages and keep your website fresh and inviting.

Our content management systems put you in control and give you the ability to maintain a dynamic web site.

Don’t have the time to do it yourself?  Ask us about our Web Maintenance Plan and Search Engine Optimization Plan!  Our trained and experienced staff can do it all for you.   Maintaining a dynamic website through design and data can be very time consuming.  Our staff is experts in many fields and we have created a team that can work to ensure your dynamic website stays attractive to all of your consumers.  Central Mass Web Design has helped many clients to maintain dynamic websites throughout Massachusetts and beyond, including Fitchburg, Leominster, Worcester, Cambridge, and Boston.

Want to view some of our recent works?  Check out our online portfolio to see our many designs, and request a website design estimate today.

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Google could be paying for content soon!

November 23rd, 2009

Google Yahoo and Bing

In a recent story, published by Financial Times, Microsoft is considering paying Print Media Outlets for use of their content on their newest search engine Bing.  This move would force the Print Media Outlets that take the offer to remove their content from Google.  If Microsoft is successfull in this move, assuming that they do in fact move forward with it, Google may be forced to pay similar media outlets for their content, creating a content war within the Print Media.  You could see some high values paid for the content from the major news sources.  While Rupert Murdoch’s New Corp seems to be a part lead in this against Google…..I wouldn’t count them out for taking the money if Google made them a higher offer than Microsoft and Bing.

Rupert Murdoch

Microsoft is on this for one reason, and one reason only….they want to hurt the deep pockets of Google.  Google is claiming that their news results bring in little revenue.  I doubt that.  That is just postering to make it seem like this move isn’t going to effect them.

If Microsoft can court the top 5 Print Media Outlets in the country, then I think the Google News section could be doomed, as well as how the income they bring in from the search matches for the content.

Not sure where Yahoo fits in all this.  It seems like that are taking a back seat right now to see how this plays out before they jump in with their thoughts.

With so many newspapers struggling in the current economy, it seems that this might actually breath some life into that industry.  Keep your eye out for a bidding war…this could get interesting.

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